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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 02:07 PM
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Police Seeking Immigrants Who Were Kidnapped From Their Texas Home
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBV5X501BE.html

HOUSTON (AP) - Four men kicked in the front door of a house and kidnapped six illegal immigrants at gunpoint, including a 6-month-old baby, authorities said.


Sheriff's Sgt. James Parker said a search was under way Monday for the immigrants, who recently arrived in the United States.

Parker described the missing as the 6-month-old, wearing a white jumper; her mother and father, who are between 30 and 40 years old; and another couple in their 40s. All were Hispanic.

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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 02:09 PM
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1. The minute men strike.
If they were caucasiansthat is. I think they are down here "protecting" our border.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 02:15 PM
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2. Where's the Amber Alert for the 6-month old baby?
Dark skinned illegal babies must not qualify for an Amber Alert.

Don

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sadiesworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 07:00 PM
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42. Amber Alert issued.
See post #9.
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sadiesworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 06:57 PM
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41. The abductors were hispanic.
Edited on Mon Jul-11-05 06:59 PM by sadiesworld
see post #9
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icymist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 02:17 PM
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3. Whoever has this baby, please release it!
Parker described the missing as the 6-month-old, wearing a white jumper; her mother and father, who are between 30 and 40 years old; and another couple in their 40s. All were Hispanic.

They were taken in a white van with a blue stripe


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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 02:23 PM
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 02:50 PM
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8. Yeah, so kill them all!
No one who crosses a border illegally to chase the American Dream deserves American rights, right?
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 02:56 PM
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 02:57 PM
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11. Yeah, so kill them all!
How dare they put union workers on the street!
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:03 PM
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:08 PM
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16. Why should migrant workers and their families...
lose their lives and freedom because a bunch of racist bastards scapegoated them?
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:13 PM
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:15 PM
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21. Racist horseshit.
Illegal immigrants still have the right not to be kidnapped and murdered, and every right gauranteed by the constitution.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:18 PM
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 05:29 PM
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30. They were still kidnapped!
The law protecting people from being kidnapped applies to everyone living and breathing. I guess racist viewpoints have extended to making people who aren't white and born in the USA by the grace of gawd non-human. That's nice to know.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 06:06 PM
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32. But kidnapping is okayz by you?
You apparently made a wrong turn on the information highway--and I'm a HUGE union supporter.
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ConfuZed Donating Member (856 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:45 PM
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27. No matter what when it comes down to illegals on the southern end... :)
there is someone like this guy screaming racism.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 06:16 PM
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35. You are so right!
And I'm proud to be one of them.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:51 PM
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28. What about those of us whose families didn't enter legally?
Personally I don't care for the idea that my Grandfather was fair game for whatever criminals wanted to victimize him.
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Julius Civitatus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 06:10 PM
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33. Law still applies to any HUMAN being residing in this country
Edited on Mon Jul-11-05 06:12 PM by Julius Civitatus
no matter his/her status. Putting matters of immigration aside, the law is supposed to apply the same to non-citizens, legal or not. Otherwise you are creating a sub-caste of people.

Not because they are "illegal" it means that Americans can do anything they want to them. It's inhuman to think that because of their status they can be abused, kidnapped, tortured or killed.

This is the type of logic that has given us Guantanamo and Abu Grahib.

:mad:
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Tommymac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:13 PM
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19. Don't blame the workers...
Edited on Mon Jul-11-05 03:14 PM by Tommymac
blame the corporate system that hires them. And the government that encourages it.

They also have families to feed...just like you and I.

And by the way, I have been unemployed for almost six months due to outsourcing...but I don't blame the workers who took my job..instead I am trying to work to change the system that allowed the corporation to take American Tax breaks to hire overseas workers. And the awful health care system we have that doesn't compare to the ones overseas - so it's cheaper for corps to go there.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 04:39 PM
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29. How about a link or some data
to support that claim?
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 06:04 PM
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31. Work harder instead of posting on DU
and maybe then you won't lose your job!
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 06:20 PM
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36. Why don't you fight to repeal right to work laws, or trying to expose
the companies that hire them?

But no, posting RW sounding propaganda is sooo much easier...
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:04 PM
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13. Texas is a 'Right to Work State'.
Edited on Mon Jul-11-05 03:06 PM by oneighty
Union membership means little.

I bet Virgina is too.

Ya think?

180
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:05 PM
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14. Yup. Texas is known as a helluva Union state
LOTS of union jobs going missing there.....
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:06 PM
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15. I didn't know migrant workers had a union.
:eyes:
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:10 PM
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:10 PM
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18. Not illegal immigrants, that's for sure.
I think you're under the mistaken impression that hispanic means illegal immigrant.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:16 PM
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:17 PM
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23. You should try it some time.
It might hurt a bit at first, but hopefully you'll get used to it.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:20 PM
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:35 PM
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26. Shipyards? Federal jobs?
Lot of union strength there. Virginia must be close to the top in federal monies for the military. Lot of unions in the federal jobs that help keep 'Virginia is for lovers state' trucking along.

I bet
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 06:30 PM
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livinginphotographs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 06:36 PM
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39. Get off DU and get a job, slacker.
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 02:28 PM
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5. KEEE-RIST!!! . . . is THIS what it's come to? . . .
vigilantes kidnapping those they don't like and doing who knows what with them? . . . how long before they start kicking in Muslims' doors, or homosexuals' doors, or even liberals doors? . . . this is sick, sick, sick . . .
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 06:28 PM
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37. Maybe they were kidnapped to be
put to work. Forced labor. That's even cheaper than hiring an illegal immigrant.

You never know.
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sintax Donating Member (891 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 02:40 PM
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6.  Human Beings not "Illegals"
I detest this terminology

It's not a border it's a scar
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ConfuZed Donating Member (856 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 02:44 PM
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7. I think its a BS story
Notice they can tell you how many men took them and a vague desc of the van but they fail to mention any other desc ike Race,Clothing,Size, etc.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 06:12 PM
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34. Reading: it's a lost art...
The released woman told detectives four Hispanic males had come into the house and there could have been more outside. Parker said there is no good description of the suspects, but they were in a white van believed to be a Ford, with a blue stripe on its side and paper tags.


I suppose it's okay with you since the kidnappers were also Hispanic, as were the victims?

I bet you don't live in coyote country...
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sadiesworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 06:42 PM
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40. I don't believe the article posted by the OP mentions that.
:shrug:
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 02:53 PM
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9. "Amber Alert issued after baby & 4 adults disappear from home."
Edited on Mon Jul-11-05 02:58 PM by Bridget Burke
The Chronicle's version contains no information on anyone's legal status.

www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/topstory2/3261041

(Free registration may be needed--or use Bugmenot.)

Houston law enforcement groups do NOT pretend to be La Migra--so crime victims or witnesses will not be afraid to talk to them. That's HPD policy; apparently the Sheriff's dept works the same.

Of course, the Minutemen are appalled. When they show up in Houston this October--after the worst of the heat--I'm sure Houstonians will let them know what we think of them.
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